Hugh Kenner (January 7, 1923 – November 24, 2003), was a Canadian literary scholar, critic and professor. Events 1325 - Alfonso IV becomes King of Portugal. 1558 - France takes Calais, the last continental Year 1923 ( MCMXXIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 380 - Theodosius I makes his adventus, or formal Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page Literature is the Art of written works Literally translated the word means "acquaintance with letters" (from Latin littera letter Scholarly method &mdash or as it is more commonly called scholarship &mdash is the body of principles and practices used by scholars to make their claims about the world as The word critic comes from the Greek el κριτικός ( el-Latn kritikós) "able to discern" which in turn derives from the word The meaning of the word professor ( Latin: professor, person who professes to be an expert in some art or science teacher of highest rank) varies

Kenner was born in Peterborough, Ontario on January 7, 1923; his father taught classics. Peterborough is a City on the Otonabee River in central-eastern Ontario, Canada, 125 kilometres Events 1325 - Alfonso IV becomes King of Portugal. 1558 - France takes Calais, the last continental Year 1923 ( MCMXXIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. "Classical literature" redirects here For literature in Classical languages outside the Graeco-Roman sphere see Ancient literature. Kenner attributed his interest in literature to his poor hearing, caused by a bout of influenza during his childhood. Literature is the Art of written works Literally translated the word means "acquaintance with letters" (from Latin littera letter

Attending the University of Toronto, Kenner studied under Marshall McLuhan, who wrote the introduction to Kenner's first book Paradox in Chesterton. This article is about the University of Toronto's St George Campus A paradox is a true statement or group of statements that leads to a Contradiction or a situation which defies intuition; or inversely Gilbert Keith Chesterton (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936 was an influential English writer of the early 20th century Kenner's second book, The Poetry of Ezra Pound (1951) was dedicated to McLuhan, who had introduced Kenner to Pound on June 4, 1948, during Pound's incarceration at St. Elizabeths Hospital, Washington, D.C., where Kenner and McLuhan had driven as a detour from their trip from Toronto to New Haven, Connecticut. Ezra Weston Loomis Pound ( Hailey, Idaho Territory, United States October 30 1885 – Venice, Italy November 1 1972 was an American Expatriate Events 781 BC - The first historic Solar eclipse is recorded in China. Year 1948 ( MCMXLVIII) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Incarceration is the detention of a person in Jail or Prison. Washington DC ( formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D Toronto (təˈrɒntoʊ colloquially pronounced or) is the largest city in Canada and is the provincial capital of Ontario (Pound, who became a friend of Kenner's, had suggested the book be titled The Rose in the Steel Dust. ) Later, Kenner had said of McLuhan, "I had the advantage of being exposed to Marshall when he was at his most creative, and then of getting to the far end of the continent shortly afterward, when he couldn't get me on the phone all the time. He could be awfully controlling. "

In 1950, Kenner earned a Ph.D. from Yale University, with a dissertation on James Joyce, James Joyce: Critique in Progress, for Cleanth Brooks. "PhD" redirects here for other uses see PhD (disambiguation. A dissertation (also called thesis or disquisition) is a document that presents the author's Research and findings and is submitted in support of candidature James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 &ndash 13 January 1941 was an Irish expatriate writer widely considered to be one of the most influential writers of the Cleanth Brooks ( October 16, 1906 - May 10, 1994) was an influential American literary critic and professor This became Dublin's Joyce in 1956.

The Pound Era, the product of years of scholarship and considered by many to be Kenner's masterpiece, was published in 1971. This work was responsible for enshrining Pound's reputation (damaged by his wartime activities) as one of the greatest Modernists. Modernism describes an array of Cultural movements rooted in the changes in Western society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century

His first teaching post was at the University of California, Santa Barbara (1951 to 1973); he then taught at Johns Hopkins University (from 1973 to 1990) and the University of Georgia (from 1990 to 1999). The University of California Santa Barbara ( UCSB) is a selective research-oriented public university located on the Pacific Ocean in Santa Barbara County California The University of Georgia ( UGA) is a public research University located in Athens, Georgia, the oldest and largest of the

Kenner was married twice: his first wife, Mary Waite, died in 1964; the couple had three daughters and two sons. His second wife, whom he married in 1965, was Mary-Anne Bittner; they had a son and a daughter. Hugh Kenner died on November 24, 2003. Events 380 - Theodosius I makes his adventus, or formal Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar.

Selected bibliography

• Paradox in Chesterton (1947)
• The Poetry of Ezra Pound (New Directions, 1951)
• Wyndham Lewis: A Critical Guidebook (1954)
• Dublin's Joyce (Indiana University Press, 1956; rpt. Events Poet Cid Corman began Origin magazine in response to the failure of a magazine that Robert Creeley had planned Percy Wyndham Lewis ( November 18, 1882 &ndash March 7, 1957) was an English painter and Author (he dropped Events Robert Creeley founds and edits the Black Mountain Review Jack Kerouac reads Dwight Goddard 's , Columbia University Press, 1987)
• Gnomon: Essays in Contemporary Literature (1959)
• The Art of Poetry (1959)
• The Invisible Poet: T. S. Eliot (1959; rev. Events In the United States "Those serious new Bohemians the beatniks, occupied with reading their deliberately undisciplined protesting verse Thomas Stearns Eliot, OM (September 26 1888 – January 4 1965 was a poet Dramatist, and Literary critic. Events In the United States "Those serious new Bohemians the beatniks, occupied with reading their deliberately undisciplined protesting verse ed, 1969)
• Samuel Beckett: A Critical Study (Grove Press, 1961; rev. Events FIELD magazine founded at Oberlin College Charles Bukowski quits his day job as a Post Office clerk in Los Angeles to Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989 was an Irish Writer, Dramatist and poet ed. , 1968)
• T. S. Eliot: A Collection of Critical Essays (editor) (Prentice-Hall, 1962)
• The Stoic Comedians: Flaubert, Joyce, and Beckett (1962) (illustrated by Guy Davenport)
• Seventeenth Century Poetry: The Schools of Donne & Jonson (editor) (1964)
• Studies in Change: A Book of the Short Story (editor) (1965)
• The Counterfeiters: An Historical Comedy (Indiana University Press, 1968; The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985) (illustrated by Guy Davenport)
• The Pound Era (University of California Press, 1971)
• Bucky: A Guided Tour of Buckminster Fuller (William Morrow, 1973)
• A Reader's Guide to Samuel Beckett (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1973)
• A Homemade World: The American Modernist Writers (Alfred A. Events Writers in the Soviet Union this year were allowed to publish criticism of Joseph Stalin and were given more freedom generally although many were severely Gustave Flaubert (gystaːv flobɛːʁ in French ( December 12, 1821 &ndash May 8, 1880) was a French writer who is counted among Guy Mattison Davenport ( November 23 1927 – January 4 2005) was an American Writer, Translator, Illustrator John Donne (pronounced like done, dʌn 1572 – 31 March 1631 was a Jacobean poet preacher and a major representative of the Metaphysical poets Jonson is a surname and may refer to Ben Jonson (circa 1572-1637 English Renaissance dramatist poet and actor Gail Jonson (born Events Among the many books of poetry published this year Robert Lowell 's For the Union Dead is greeted with particular acclaim Events This Magazine founded by Robert Grenier and Barrett Watten The Canterbury Tales, Richard Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller ( July 12, 1895 &ndash July 1, 1983) was an American Architect, Author Knopf, 1975)
• Geodesic Math and How to Use It (1976)
• Joyce's Voices (University of California Press, 1978)
• Ulysses (George Allen & Unwin, 1980; rev. In Mathematics, a geodesic /ˌdʒiəˈdɛsɪk -ˈdisɪk/ -dee-sik is a generalization of the notion of a " straight line " to " curved spaces ed. , The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987)
• The Mechanic Muse (Oxford University Press, 1987)
• A Colder Eye: The Modern Irish Writers (Alfred A. Knopf, 1983)
• A Sinking Island: The Modern English Writers (1988)
• Mazes: Essays (North Point Press, 1989)
• Historical Fictions: Essays (University of Georgia Press, 1995)
• Chuck Jones: A Flurry of Drawings (1994)
• The Elsewhere Community (2000)

External links

• Hughkenner.org - an Elsewhere Community Online.

Charles Martin "Chuck" Jones ( September 21, 1912 &ndash February 22, 2002) was an American Animator,

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